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Central Internment Camp

Central Internment Camp was located in Dehra Dun/ Premnagar a complex located in Northern India 125 miles Northeast of Delhi.

It was a mixed civilian internment camp holding 2000 German civilians and 10,000 Italian POWs. housed in separate camps.  The camp opened in 1941 and closed in 1946.  There are 3 types of notes.  Type one is like the typical India POW notes with a 6 mm bar.  Type 2 are without the bar and type 3 has Internees Private Funds Account-Central Internment Camp on the top 2 lines of the note.  Some notes have no wing designation and some have wing 1 and wing 6.  Wings 1 and 6 held German internees.